Chris Hedges: Civil disobedience is the only way to put pressure on the centers of power

with Chris Hedges
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Every year, the Writers Symposium by the Sea, sponsored by Point Loma Nazarene College, brings an eclectic mix of celebrated authors to San Diego. It’s our pleasure to welcome one of those authors to Midday Edition.


Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.

From the archives:

Black Bloc: The cancer of the system

Minimum Wage: Catching up with 1968 by Ralph Nader

Michael Parenti: Who Runs The World? (2012)

Chris Hedges and David Zucchino On War Reporting

Acts of Love by Chris Hedges

The Cancer of Occupy by Chris Hedges